Interesting thing happened yesterday afternoon. Our cat got into a fight with a skunk in our back yard and won. I was sure she would have been sprayed, like most of our dogs did getting even remotely close to a skunk but she never got sprayed.
A little backstory. We recently fixed up our backyard so it is very hard for animals to get in and out of our backyard. We put barriers under the ground a bit so you can't even dig under easily and the fences are rather high in most places. Other cats and squirrels can get in if they want but for the most part, the bunnies and skunks don't get in so our garden is rather safe.
Our cat, "Muska", loves being outside but also loves being close to the family. Also both myself and my wife have had cats before that met terrible fates in traffic so we setup the backyard as her territory which she loves. She could easily jump over if she wanted to but she has not decided to so far. She also defends her territory. As spring turned to summer she has greatly improved her hunting skills. She scared away several other cats bigger than her. She caught a few mice, then recently she moved up to birds. So far no birds have died as we got to them early enough.
Yesterday my wife saw our cat chasing what looked to be another cat. We went around the corner to a large narrow part of the side of the house with a dead end and was astonished to see that our cat had cornered a skunk about 25% larger than her. The skunk looked terrified in the corner desperately looking for a way out and our cat was just sitting there about 2 feet away from it giving it the "get out!" stare.
Wife grabs the screaming kids and tells me to handle it. I watched in amazement while the skunk was panicking, showing their butt ready to spray and our cat just sits there with that same face. Muska doesn't move at all so the skunk gives up digging for a bit and goes up closer for a sniff and Muska gives it a right hook which sends the skunk back to the corner. Whole time I am watching trying to figure out what to do.
Wife gave me a box of cat treats, I shake it about 20 feet away from the situation, cat comes over acting like everything was fine. I am thinking she is going to smell but nope, she smells fine?! Wife takes her inside and I am left with a terrified skunk with no way out.
I grab a chair, lean it against part of the fence about 15 feet away from the black and white intruder and leave. We watch through the window the skunk eventually use the chair to get away. We'll figure out how they got in, tomorrow.
tl;dr Cat defended our backyard against a skunks. smacked it around a few times and didn't get sprayed.
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